[radicaldreamer]

University of Texas has an excellent CompSci department and this person should be happy to attend.

Also, there are plenty of engineers at Big Tech companies and at startups who have no degree other than a high school diploma and a huge number don’t have a computer science degree if they do have one.

There is also a large contingent of folks who have terminal degrees in law or a PhD in Physics but work in software engineering.

I think the college application process is a crapshoot for the most part but its likely that this person didn’t distinguish themselves in that particular area but apparently had no issue passing a completely different criteria and process for an engineering gig at Google.